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Come April-May, I switch from hot to ice coffee, and often take a cupful of ice, equal portions of water and low- fat-milk, two sweeteners, a teaspoon of my favorite coffee… blend it all and NIRVANA! There are some really cool sugar free, fat free, kosher syrups and creamers available out there now. Our favorite pick is DaVinci Gourmet® (Khof-K certification) which has dozens of sugar free flavors-all the standards plus exciting gourmet ones like Dulce de Leche, English Toffee, Irish Crème, KAHLUA® Flavored Sugar Free Syrup, Toasted Marshmallow and a host of fruity flavors as well. A 750 mL bottle runs $7.99. You can order directly from their site http://www.davincigourmet.com/products/sugar_free_flavored_syrups/. The possibilities are all tasty, endless and delightfully guilt free. Of course they also have all the classic and natural flavored syrups flavors. Oh, don't miss their gourmet dessert syrups all at surprisingly affordable prices. A little goes a long way. I'm going to try the Chai tea, sugar free concentrate, I spotted on their web site. Unfortunately, I haven't yet found any cholov Yisroel low fat sugar free creamers, let us know if you find any on the kosher market scene.
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A number of social psychologists recently published the following critical response to Situationist Contributor Phil Zimbardo's latest book, The Lucifer Effect:
We are concerned by the message that has been conveyed to the general public regarding the power of the situation to "trump individual dispositions" ("The Banality of Evil," Observer, April 2007). In contrast to Zimbardo, we believe that there is actually little scientific evidence indicating that situations are more important than dispositions for explaining behavior. Indeed, researchers recently summarized over 25,000 studies and found that personality and situations contribute almost equally to various outcomes, and many studies demonstrate the complex ways in which people react differently to similar situations. Our concern is that Zimbardo has misrepresented the scientific evidence in an attempt to offer a purely situational account of the antisocial acts perpetrated at Abu Ghraib. The scientific consensus, based on existing data, is that people vary in their propensity for antisocial behavior and that environments transact with personalities. Some people are more likely to turn out to be bad apples than others, and this is particularly evident in certain situations.
Phil Zimbardo last week posted his response to the criticism, indicating, among other things, that he'd never claimed that situation "trump[s] individual dispositions." His response speaks eloquently for itself.
As self-identified situationist scholars, we have a stake in this debate and wanted to offer our own response. But we'd like to go further than Professor Zimbardo did (though we suspect he would concur). With some reservations, we are willing to accept the criticism's premise; our claim is that situation trumps disposition, assuming those terms are properly construed.
As explained in "About Situationism," "[s]ituationism is premised on the social scientific insight that the naïve psychology—that is, the highly simplified, affirming, and widely held model for understanding human thinking and behavior—on which our laws and institutions are based is largely wrong." So what is that highly simplified model of the human animal? According to anthropologist Alan Fiske, who has researched that question:
[t]he person is believed to consist of a set of "internal," "personal" attributes such as . . . personality traits, preferences, subjective feeling states, beliefs and attitudes. . . . Taken together, these attributes define each person as an autonomous, freely choosing, special individual.
From that perspective, it is easy to assume that each individual has control over his or her own destiny and to credit or blame good and bad conduct or outcomes accordingly. Fiske boils down the simple attributional schema to the following elements:
- Actions are freely chosen.
- Choices imply a preference.
- Preferences are stable over time.
- Preferences implicate the identity of the self.
- Outcomes are mostly controllable.
- People are responsible for (and hence the self is implicated in) the choices they make and the resultant outcomes.
Given those elements, it makes sense that people who do bad things should be punished, that people who do good things should be rewarded, and the situation should be ignored. That is the "dispositionism" that we situationists maintain is, pretty much, completely wrong.
Professor Zimbardo's critics are, as far as we are concerned, knocking down a straw man. The critics build their case around evidence that "people react differently to similar situations." No offense, but . . . duh. As Zimbardo has already underscored, no one disputes that point.
A perfect example of such differing reactions can be found in the experiment that, as much as any others, revealed the power of situation: Stanley Milgram's Obedience experiment, in which ordinary people gave seemingly fatal shocks to innocent victims. (For a Situationist post summarizing Milgram's experiment and those lessons, click here; Milgram's forty-five minute movie about his experiment is available below.)
The significance of that classic experiment is that it makes clear that people will often behave in ways that contradict how they imagine they would behave based on their own perceived dispositions. It reveals how "good people" could easily be made to engage in "evil conduct" because of hard-to-see situational influences.
Some of our students have responded to the findings of Milgram's initial trial in a way that resembles the arguments of Zimbardo's critics. They point out that roughly one-third of the subjects did not shock the "learner" all the way to 450 volts, thus revealing the significance of the role of disposition. "Look," they remind us, "some people's disposition overcomes their situation."
Upon closer examination, however, that argument fails. First of all, virtually all of those subjects shocked the "student" to at least 300 volts. Obviously, people were willing to inflict a good deal of pain on innocent victims.
In any event, there is nothing about the one-third of "disobedient" subjects that suggests that "disposition" overcame or was equal to "situation." Quite the contrary, the experiment was set up such that there were powerful situational forces pushing the subjects in two directions—one to continue obediently with the experiment and the other to end the experiment in response to the screams, kicks, complaints, demands, and eventual silence of the "student." They could comply with the white-coated authority, or with the desperate innocent victim. No matter what "choice" the subjects made, they felt considerable situational pressure to make the other choice—and those mixed situational reactions manifested themselves in stress, nervous laughter, and significant discomfort.
The reason the experiment is famous is not because situation trumped disposition for some subjects while disposition trumped situation for others, but because seemingly trivial situational forces to inflict great pain on an innocent person overcame the obvious situational forces to do otherwise. It had been presumed by virtually everyone, including Milgram himself, that the latter situational forces would trump the former. But that presumption was wrong for the majority of subjects—and that prediction error makes clear how easily situational forces can lead "good people" to behave more or less like "bad apples."
Still, some would argue that the difference between the two groups in the original version of the study—the 2/3 who shocked to 450 volts and the 1/3 who stopped shocking at some point before 450 volts—must represent something different about the people themselves, given that the situation was constant. That difference, the argument seems to be, is "dispositonal."
But there is nothing about differences in individual behavior across seemingly similar situations that demonstrates that disposition is the driving force. That's true for many reasons, which we will turn to in Part II of this post (available Thursday).


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5 things to know about Syria
Here are five things to know about the situation in Syria.
1. First and foremost, where is Syria?
It's in the Middle East, specifically, in Asia, bordering Lebanon and the Mediterranean Sea to the west, Turkey to the north, Iraq to the east, Jordan to the south and Israel to the southwest.
2. What did Syria do to make the U.S. and its allies upset?
The government of Bashar al-Assad purportedly used chemical weapons against its own people, resulting in the deaths of somewhere between 350 people (according to British intelligence) or 1,300 (according to opposition leaders). Some have called evidence of the attacks scanty, but the U.S. and the U.K. have said there is undeniable evidence. The attack took place in mid-August in a suburb of Damascus.
3. Why did the Syrian government attack its own people?
A civil war has been raging in the country since February 2011, and according to U.S. media accounts, more than 100,000 people have been killed in the conflict. The attack is another in a string of salvos by the government against the opposition (rebels have attacked government forces as well). The civil war began when anti-government graffiti - reading "The people want to topple the regime" - was painted on the walls of a school, schoolchildren were arrested and allegedly mistreated, and protests turned violent. Syria's leader, al-Assad, has been in charge since 2000, when his father died.
4. Why do the U.S. and its allies care now, as opposed to when the civil war was in its beginnings?
Last year President Barack Obama said that "a red line for us is we start seeing a whole bunch of chemical weapons moving around or being utilized." British Prime Minister David Cameron recently echoed those sentiments about Syria crossing a line: "The use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime is a serious crime of international concern, as a breach of the customary international law prohibition on use of chemical weapons, and amounts to a war crime and a crime against humanity. However, the legal basis for military action would be humanitarian intervention; the aim is to relieve humanitarian suffering by deterring or disrupting the further use of chemical weapons."
5. What next?
U.N. investigators are in Syria investigating and plan to finish by Saturday and then file a report with U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon. England initially seemed prepared for a strike, but after lawmakers there voted down intervention, Cameron said his country wouldn't take part. Most U.S. lawmakers don't want a strike, but the Obama administration appears to be leaning that way. U.S. warships have been deployed to the region. Further complicating the issue is that Russia and Iran have vowed to prevent an attack against Syria, its ally. China also is an ally of Syria. Russian warships are in the same waters as the U.S. destroyers.
Sources: CNN, USA Today, Washington Post, BBC


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Richard Curtis's time-traveling romcom About Time finds a new leading lady. Fox renews one low-rated science fiction drama while dropping another. The Vampire Diaries showrunner goes inside last night's finale. Plus a Ray Bradbury adaptation... and Chloe Moretz is a zombie!
It's spoilers all the way down!
Top image from Game of Thrones.
Snow White and the Huntsman
Here's a behind the scenes video. You can also check out a sneak peek at the link. [Coming Soon]
Men in Black 3
Here's a new video featuring clips and interviews with the cast. [First Showing]
And here's a new international TV spot.
About Time
Midnight in Paris and Sherlock Holmes actress Rachel McAdams has reportedly been cast as the romantic lead in this film from Four Weddings and a Funeral and Blackadder writer Richard Curtis, who also wrote the excellent Doctor Who episode "Vincent and the Doctor." McAdams is taking over for New Girl star Zooey Deschanel. She will play a time traveler's love interest, possibly because she is attempting to copy and paste over the first time she played that exact role in that misbegotten The Time Traveler's Wife adaptation. [Hollywood Reporter]
Dark Shadows actress Chloe Moretz and Hot Fuzz actor Paddy Considine are reportedly in talks for this zombie movie, in which Moretz and Considine would play daughter and father - if I'm reading between the lines correctly — Considine's unconditional love is unaffected by Moretz being turned into a zombie in the midst of a full-on undead apocalypse. The budget is a low $10 million, and it will reportedly be directed by commercials veteran Henry Hobson from a script by John Scott 3. [Variety]
From the Dust Returned
MGM has reportedly acquired the rights to legendary author Ray Bradbury's 2001 novel. Denise Di Novi and Alison Greenspan, who previous developed an adaptation of Bradbury's The Illustrated Man collection for Warner Bros., are handling production duties. Here's the official description of the novel from Bradbury's website:
Fifty-five years in the making, "From the Dust Returned" grew out of a short story, "Homecoming," which appeared in the October 1946 issue of Mademoiselle magazine. Bradbury has published just five other stories about the Elliots, an outlandish, greathearted and loving-spirited Halloween creature clan and their "abnormal" (i.e., his face is reflected in the mirror!) adopted son Timothy. Over the years, Bradbury readers have clamored for more Elliott tales. A lifelong labor of love, "From the Dust Returned" is a novel (in much the way "The Martian Chronicles" is a novel) comprised of the previously published six stories interwoven with newer chapters and "connective tissue" that give us an unforgettable portrait of the rise and fall of a most peculiar brood. Here are Cecy, "the one who dreams," a young girl yearning for love who can experience the world only through the travels of her mind; Uncle Einar, a fun-loving, proud-winged vampire who loses his ability to fly; Great Grandmère, the family matriarch, who speaks of millennia gone by from deep within her mummified wrappings; and Tom, a farm boy whom Cecy "meets" and falls in love with one night during one of her spirit-borne journeys.
[Deadline via Coming Soon]
Chicago star Catherine Zeta-Jones and G.I. Joe: Retaliation's Byung-Hun Lee have been cast alongside Bruce Willis and the rest of the semi-geriatric retired CIA operatives in the sequel to the adaptation of the Warren Ellis comic of the same name. There may have been a simpler way to phrase all that. [Coming Soon]
Here's a sneak peek at tonight's season finale, "Brave New World: Part 2." [TV Guide]
Here's a video in which Leonard Nimoy and the rest of the cast discuss William Bell's big comeback. [SpoilerTV]
And here's the second half of the joint interview where John Noble and Leonard Nimoy discuss the relationship between Walter Bishop and William Bell. [Fringe Television]
Game of Thrones
Robb Stark actor Richard Madden says he'd like to see his character meet King Joffrey... and gives a pretty good reason why it probably won't happen anytime soon:
"I'd like to see Robb and Joffrey have a scene together, and I kind of think I know how it would end. He'd cut his head off completely. In a second."
True Blood
Here's a casting call for the eleventh episode of season five:
[ELDER FAERIE] Female, 40s and up. African American or Caucasian. Actor / Dancer. One Episode Guest Star. STAR NAMES ONLY
Here's a promo for next week's episode, "Two Birds", which is the penultimate entry of the season and, in all likelihood, the series.
Person of Interest
Here's a promo for next week's season finale, "Firewall", which guest stars genre stalwart Amy Acker.
Once Upon a Time
Here's an extended promo and a sneak peek for this Sunday's season finale, "A Land Without Magic."
Showrunner Edward Kitsis offers this cryptic hint for the finale:
"Regina enacted a curse for revenge that left a hole in her heart that she's trying to fill with Henry. This will test her unlike any other."
In totally unsurprising news, the show has reportedly been renewed for a second season. [KSiteTV]
Next, in not particularly unexpected but still vaguely disappointing news, Alcatraz has been cancelled. [Den of Geek]
Finally, in other, much more disappointing news... Touch has been renewed for a second season. [E! Online]
Here's a promo for next week's episode, "Tessellations."
Here's the description for the episode:
When Martin is mistaken for a criminal, he must involve himself with a heist crew in order to win back an innocent dock worker's job. Meanwhile, an Israeli boy (guest star Sean Peavy) and Palestinian girl (guest star Eden Modiano) fight to keep their relationship afloat. Clea uncovers some surprising documents about Jake, while Martin and his late wife's sister (guest star Catherine Dent) meet to make a pivotal decision.
And some promo photos. [KSiteTV]
Here are previews from executive producer Robert Singer and Castiel actor Misha Collins for next Friday's seventh season finale, "Survival of the Fittest." [multipleverses.com]
And here are some promo images. [KSiteTV]
Here's a promo and sneak peek for this Monday's body-swapping episode, "Jack of All Trades."
The Vampire Dairies
Executive producer Julie Plec discusses the major fallout of the third season finale, in which Elena appears on the road to becoming a vampire:
You've got a girl who just sorta lost her last adult living family member when Aunt Jenna died last year, so when we started this season, what we really wanted to do was begin this relationship with Alaric as her guardian and mentor, and then tear that away from her at the end leaving her and her brother with nobody. It felt like now was the time — when you're left with no grownup, no adult supervision, no parent, no guardian — for Elena to experience the next evolution of her journey. All the stuff that we did with having her get stronger over the course of the year, training and getting in touch with her physical self, and all the grief and all the emotion that she went through, all the compassion that she has for everybody, it will all play into next year and what kind of person and vampire she will actually be — if she should choose to see the transition through.
Obviously, she will transition.
There will be a discussion to be had about it at the beginning, but the road we're going down is pretty balls out.
She also discusses at length what all this means for Elena and Damon:
What we've said all year is that this is the choice for who she is at this moment in her life, and what she wants out of her life, and who she wants to have in her life in a romantic way. Though she has obviously grown to love Damon, and probably be in love with Damon, over the course of three seasons, what she said was 100 percent true: Even at its worst, she never fell out of love with Stefan, and you just can't let somebody like that go. So letting Damon go was the right thing to do for her. Of course now, who knows what's gonna happen? Her life just got completely turned upside down and ripped inside out. God only knows how each brother is gonna handle it? If they have opposing viewpoints [read: Damon definitely would have saved Elena first, so she'd still be human], then how are they going to handle each other? They just miraculously survived this year tighter than ever as brothers, what will this new development due to that relationship? There's all kinds of great questions that are gonna come up as a result of all this.
One of the twists we didn't see coming — conveniently after Elena said maybe her choice would have been different if she'd met Damon first — was that Damon HAD actually met her first on the night of her parents' crash, but he compelled her to forget because he didn't want anyone else to know he was in town.
Damon now has a small collection of things that he's compelled her to forget. If there's one thing that everyone knows about our vampire rules is that when you die and are in transition, your memories start to come back. So, there's some new information that will be introduced to Elena in the first episode of next season. I think it's just all part of the ongoing friendship and romantic entanglement that Elena has with Damon. She's never gonna be able to shake it completely, and new information is only gonna get under her skin and embed itself into her even more. And so, it will cause complications with Stefan, of course. But she's committed to Stefan. She loves Stefan. We'll get to actually see them be together for a little while.
There's still more at the link. [EW]
Young Justice: Invasion
Here are some promo photos for tomorrow morning's third episode, "Alienated", and there's also a brief description below. [KSiteTV]
The Team and the Justice League continue to hunt the Kroloteans that have invaded earth – but the aliens have help from an extremely unexpected source…"
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Last evening there was a superb wine tasting at the West Side Synagogue's Zanger Hall (347 West 34th Street) in Manhattan. The Kosher Wine Society presented New Wines for the New Year. I've been to many a wine tasting in my lifetime, but this one was truly different; unlike most kosher tastings, it included a cookbook author, food products, painters and a musical trio.
June Hersh, author of Recipes Remembered – featuring recipes and incredible stories from 80 Holocaust survivors – and the brand new Kosher Carnivore was our first interviewee of the evening. You must hear the eloquent words with which describe her passion for Jews and her love of food.
From nostalgic old shtetl tunes to Hungarian czardasz we were regaled with klezmer sound that meshed Jewish nigunnim with Gipsy soul!
I tasted Veyg's Natural Wild Flower, Lemon Zest and Peanut Butter honey flavors. All three were great, but, the Lemon Zest was my personal favorite!
Arianna Santoriello, whom we interviewed, is a young mixed media artist who markedly shows the growing fires of inspiration
Rabbi Mikhael Cohen of the French Jewish Cultural Center of New York (67 Wall Street; Phone: 212.202.1448 – Cell: 917.796.0680), was instrumental in bringing the artists and musician to the tasting, thereby, greatly enhancing this event.
Aron Ritter, President and Founder of the Kosher Wine Society, and his staff made it a superb evening so different, so delicious. SYR and I met old friends and made new ones, so many wines, so many fascinating people, so little time… truly a tasting to remember!
This evening at 7:30pm (Eastern Time) on our internet radio show, we will feature some of the pre-taped interviews. Meanwhile, if you missed our two broadcasts last week, you can listen to our delightful talk with David Mintz – CEO of Tofutti Brands, Inc. and our conversation with Geila Hocherman, the French trained Chef/author of Kosher Revolution, a beautifully executed cookbook which we'll review on these very pages.


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Comedian Katt Williams was arrested in Seattle on Sunday following an altercation at a bar, The Associated Press reports.
Williams allegedly got into an argument with another patron at the World Sports Grille, "menaced" the bar's manager with a pool cue, and refused to leave. He also is said to have flicked a cigarette into a woman's face through a car window and thrown a rock at the car, according to the AP.
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He was arrested on Sunday and released early Monday.
It wasn't the only dustup for Williams over the weekend. On Friday evening, the comedian was involved in another altercation with fans whom Williams claimed forced their way into his dressing room.
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Commodities traders who buy and sell as much as $5.67 trillion of raw materials a year say the benchmark prices for everything from oil (NYMEX:CLX13) to iron ore to gasoline are wrong as often as 27% of the time.
In a Bloomberg News survey conducted during the past eight weeks, 85 traders and analysts said they have little confidence in the assessed prices of crude, metals and iron ore. Regulators, including European Union Competition Commissioner Joaquin Almunia, may examine commodities markets, having already increased investigations of manipulation of benchmarks for interest rates, derivatives, foreign exchange and oil.
Five years after the global credit crisis prompted more regulation of banks, benchmark prices for hundreds of commodities are determined through surveys of anonymous traders who may have a stake in the outcome of the assessments. Unlike stock prices, available in real time at regulated exchanges for all investors to see, many raw materials that go into food, clothing and power are bought and sold in private.
"There will be growing pressure for more regulation," David Wilson, director of metals research and strategy at Citigroup Inc. in London, said by phone Sept. 3. "Commodities markets have traditionally been a backwater that only specialists would have been involved with. Clearly these markets haven't changed with the times."
Trader Survey
While prices for stocks, bonds and currencies are set by actual trades on exchanges, benchmarks for coal, iron ore, fertilizer, gas and some metals are determined by journalists. They establish the prices by collating data on available bids, offers and trades as well as phone and e-mail surveys. Those assessments are often used to determine payments in long-term contracts between buyers and sellers.
Bloomberg surveyed analysts and traders of energy, metals, iron ore, carbon and power. They were granted anonymity so they would give their unguarded opinions to the question: "How many times out of 100 instances do you estimate the assessed benchmark price for the main commodity you trade is unrepresentative of the true level?"
The mean answer was 27 and the median was 20. Crude benchmarks were the least representative in markets where more than five respondents gave answers, followed by oil products, metals and iron ore. Agricultural commodities had the greatest accuracy, according to the survey. About 270 people were contacted. Most of those who declined to give answers said they couldn't quantify how frequently prices were inaccurate.
Clear Concern
"The survey shows there is clearly a concern that others could be using these price-making mechanisms to bias the price up or down depending on their interests," Shaun Ledgerwood, a senior antitrust consultant at the Brattle Group who formerly worked at the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said by phone Sept. 30. "However, from the traders' perspective, no other mechanism provides as reliable a source of information."
The responses represent a fraction of the thousands of commodities and energy traders in the world. The 10 largest investment banks employ almost 2,300 people across trading, structuring, sales and research publishing, according to Coalition Development Ltd., a London-based research company.
The system of price benchmarks in the oil market "isn't broken," Ian Taylor, president and chief executive of Vitol Group, the world's largest independent oil trader, said in an interview at the Oil & Money conference in London Oct. 1. Some prices are hard to assess because there aren't enough trades, he said.
Logical Reason
"We occasionally don't like the price quotations but we don't think it's fair to say you can't trust them," Taylor said. "There's a logical reason that they are what they are, and you can't say they're demonstrably wrong."
Published benchmarks provide more transparency than would exist without them, and there are no alternatives, Ehsan Ul-Haq, a senior market consultant at Walton-on-Thames, England-based KBC Energy Economics who has almost 20 years of experience in the oil industry, said by phone Oct. 1.
Assessments in spot markets contrast with exchange-listed futures ranging from crude oil to corn, which trade almost around the clock and are publicly disclosed. More than 2,000 commodity contracts trade on bourses worldwide, according to data compiled by Bloomberg based on listings by the CME Group Inc. and IntercontinentalExchange Inc.
$5.67 Trillion
Ensuring the accuracy of benchmarks has gained urgency as the global commodities market surged. World trade in agricultural, mining products and fuels swelled to $5.67 trillion in 2011 from $1.34 trillion a decade earlier, according to the World Trade Organization in Geneva.
The International Organization of Securities Commissions, the Madrid-based group representing regulators from more than 100 countries, set tougher guidelines for publishing benchmarks in a July 17 report, including making prices based on "observable" deals where possible.
Banks, traders and benchmark publishers could be fined for failing to follow rules aimed at reducing the potential for rate-rigging, according to EU rules proposed Sept. 18. While prices would have to be based on real transaction data, those underpinning the commodity markets may be allowed special treatment because of their "sector-specific characteristics," the plans show.
Probes Spread
Regulators say they aren't convinced of the integrity of commodity assessments. The EU's probes will probably spread to raw materials, Almunia, a vice-president of the European Commission, said on the EU assembly's website May 28.
"We have started with the financial sector, now we are in the energy sector, and probably in the raw materials or in other cases we will need to pay attention also," he said.
Almunia's comments came after antitrust authorities opened a probe into manipulation of oil prices. EU investigators searched the offices of Platts, the unit of New York-based McGraw Hill Financial Inc. that assesses the price of Dated Brent, the benchmark for more than half of the world's crude. Authorities also raided BP Plc, Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Statoil ASA, and sought information from Vitol Group, Gunvor Group Ltd. and Glencore Xstrata Plc.
Spokesmen for BP, Shell, Statoil, Gunvor and Glencore declined to comment, as did a spokeswoman for Vitol.
The Federal Trade Commission is investigating oil prices, mirroring Europe's inquiry, two people familiar with the matter said in June. The FTC is looking at the impact that possible manipulation of the benchmark could have on physical and derivative oil markets in the U.S., a person who asked not to be named because the matter is confidential said in July.
$600 Trillion
Regulators around the world have tried to make the financial system safer and more transparent in the five years since the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. As they examine markets that remain opaque, they uncovered attempts to rig the London interbank offered rate, or Libor, referenced in contracts valued at about $600 trillion. Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc, UBS AG and Barclays Plc were fined a total of about $2.5 billion since June 2012.
Those probes are continuing. Last month, U.S. prosecutors charged three former ICAP Plc employees with manipulating Libor, and the London-based interdealer broker was fined $88 million in a five-year international probe of rigging of benchmark interest rates.
$1 Quadrillion
Authorities are also investigating manipulation of ISDAfix, a benchmark in the $379 trillion market for interest-rate swaps. Almunia said Oct. 7 on the EU's website that he is examining possible irregularities in currency rates following a Swiss probe into whether banks colluded to manipulate the $5.3 trillion-a-day foreign exchange market.
Libor and ISDAfix are part of a suite of financial benchmarks that underpin about $1 quadrillion of assets and trades, almost 14 times global economic output in 2012.
Royal Bank of Scotland passed a currency trader's instant message records to U.K. regulators after concluding the communications may have been inappropriate, according to two people familiar with the matter. RBS uncovered the chats after opening an internal probe following a Bloomberg News report in June that traders at some of the world's biggest banks may have sought to manipulate benchmark foreign exchange rates.
RBS, Deutsche Bank and Citigroup are among firms reviewing e-mails, instant messages and phone records of their foreign- exchange employees for evidence of potential manipulation, according to three people with knowledge of those probes. Spokesmen at all the firms declined to comment.
May Backfire
Requiring that commodity-price benchmarks be set by observable deals may backfire should traders decide it's safer to avoid participating in assessments, said Clare Hatcher, a consultant at London-based law firm Clyde & Co.
Methods for pricing commodities evolved over as long as 130 years and gained acceptance in part by providing more information to the market than was previously available.
For crude oil and refined fuels, Platts publishes the names of companies, prices, delivery ports and other transaction details. It assesses prices through bids, offers and transactions made by phone, instant message or online during prescribed times, known as the market-on-close process, which subscribers to the service can see.
The process began in 1992 and is used for selected products, such as Dated Brent crude, that have industry-agreed specifications. More than 60% of the world's internationally traded crude oil was priced against Dated Brent as of May 2011, according to a report by Platts at the time.
Before market-related pricing systems were adopted in the late 1980s, oil prices were set by large multinational companies and later by the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, according to the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
Judgment Calls
In other markets, such as coal and iron ore, transaction details are published when buyers and sellers agree to provide them. Platts reporters discuss bids, offers and deals with participants to determine daily prices. In the absence of verified deals, reporters use information such as bids and offers and related prices in other markets. Judgment is used to exclude data that don't follow Platts procedures or are considered out of line.
"In all of Platts' data-collection processes for its assessments, our aim is to bring transparency to price discovery by publishing as much detailed and meaningful information as possible," Kathleen Tanzy, a New York-based spokeswoman for the company, said in an e-mailed statement Oct. 4. "In our oil and oil products assessments, the degree of transparency our market- on-close price assessment process provides is unparalleled, identifying all data by company name."
Private Negotiations
Sugar, coffee and cocoa are determined in private negotiations, with prices set at a certain amount above or below exchange-traded futures. In these spot markets for prompt deliveries, reporters call traders and brokers and then publish the values in news articles.
In Platts's experience, there is always someone who doesn't agree with a price assessment, perhaps because the market moved against his or her position, Tanzy said. Platts assessments reflect market value as determined between buyer and seller in the open market and reported to Platts, she said in a previous e-mail.
Platts gave the EU a presentation outlining its market-on- close assessment, Tanzy said, declining to provide details of the meeting.
The company is an independent party with no financial stake in whether prices rise or fall, Jorge Montepeque, global director of market reporting, said in a July interview.
External Review
Argus Media Ltd., a competitor of Platts, hasn't been involved in the EU investigation and won't speculate about scrutiny of oil or other markets, Seana Lanigan, a spokeswoman for the London-based company , said in a July 26 e-mail. Argus is implementing the principles for oil-price reporting recommended by IOSCO, she said.
"In 40 years we've never had any serious complaints or legal action about our price assessments," Adrian Binks, chairman and chief executive of Argus, said by phone Oct. 4. An external review of Argus's process will be published in the next month, he said.
Bloomberg LP, the parent of Bloomberg News, competes with Platts, Argus and other assessment companies in providing market news and information.
Spot Gold
Even for gold, with its pricing system that has lasted more than 90 years, it would be "naive to discount the possibility of price manipulation," said Mark O'Byrne, director at brokerage GoldCore Ltd. in Dublin. In the spot market, transactions between banks are reported by participants directly to news organizations. Prices used by mining companies for hedging are published by London Gold Market Fixing Ltd. Five banks carry out fixings every morning and afternoon to set benchmark prices.
The China Iron & Steel Association, representing iron-ore buyers from the world's largest importing nation, said in May it was skeptical about Platts prices because of the unknown size of the deal samples.
Metal Bulletin Ltd. will probably hire an outside auditor to review its process for pricing iron ore and steel, London- based Managing Director Raju Daswani said June 6. Published benchmarks provide more transparency than would exist without them, Daswani said by e-mail Oct. 4.
CRU Group, a competitor, said June 5 it hired a third party to review how it collects steel prices. The results will be published to data providers, Glenn Cooney, head of operations, said by e-mail Oct. 4.
"You can't regulate a handshake, a one-off contract between producers, shippers and consumers," Andrey Kryuchenkov, a London-based analyst at VTB Capital, a unit of Russia's second-largest lender, said in an e-mailed response to questions Sept. 4. "How do you define manipulation? When an Australian miner shakes a hand with a giant smelter in China and they agree on a term price?"


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Morning Jolt: Burger King apologizes for being hacked
In the news
Burger King's Twitter feed was hacked on Monday, and the hacker pretended the account was McDonald's, saying Burger King had been bought out, and posted several obscene messages. Burger King contacted Twitter and had the account suspended when they realized what was going on, and they regained control of the account late Monday.
Opening bell
The Dow Jones opened at 13,981.76. Markets were closed yesterday for Presidents Day.
Motivational quote
"Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience." - Ralph Waldo Emmerson
Watercooler talk:'Haunted mirror' for sale on eBay
A London man's eBay auction for a "very possibly haunted mirror" is gathering worldwide attention for the creepy and disturbing affects the man says the mirror is having on him and his roommate. Jen Markham has more.
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Control Your Remote
There are so many Pow! Bang! Ka-chow! buzzwords thrown out by the consumer electronics industry's marketing war chariots that smaller, more important things often get lost or completely overwhelmed in the ground clutter. Sure, we're bombarded with messages of "In living 3D!!!" and "contrast of 1 bazillion to 1!!!" and "height, width, depth, space, and time channels!!!" - but what if you can't actually use your new infinity-to-1, 3D TV with 20-channel surround because the remote control, um, sucks?
Without question, picture and sound are crucial, the raison d'être for the home movie or music experience. And no matter how great your remote control is, if your TV and sound are smothered in weak sauce, the experience will always be poor. However, the reverse is definitely not true. A great TV and sound system can be marginalized by a terrible control interface.
Hopefully, the importance of good ergonomics won't be lost with the whole "works with" iPhone and iPad frenzy. The iPhone is too small to be seriously considered as a dedicated controller. And the iPad - well, the iPad is cool. Way cool. With all of the apps that are out there, it can do some amazing stuff. Some companies - Sonos, for instance - have dialed in their app to create a killer control experience. And if you're using an iPad with a system like Control4, it can be a sweet primary controller. But if you have to hit a button to wake it up, swipe to unlock, select an app, and then find a volume button, that's about four steps too many, especially when your wife is yelling, "I said, turn it down!" This is one reason why I think some- thing like Crestron's iPaneL, with its insidiously simple and brilliantly clever hard buttons, will make all the difference.
Now, I could pick on receiver manufacturers like Denon, Yamaha, Onkyo, and, well, pretty much all of them for making challenging remotes. The remotes included with receivers are so brutally complex that even people who know what they're doing can't figure out how to use them. The remote that came with my preamp/processor is so hatefully complicated that it makes me feel inadequate just seeing it lying in that seldom-used drawer. And just because your TV/Blu-ray/cable box/whatever remote can pos- sibly - in some crippled, Frankenstein fash- ion - be a kind of quasi-all-in-one controller doesn't mean it should. In fact, that definitely means it shouldn't.
The answer is investing in a universal re- mote control. Whatever it costs, it's worth it. My daily wand is a $600 URC MX-980, and in my elaborate home theater system, it's the piece of gear I use most often.
Simply put, a remote control system must be easy to use to be successful. This means activities should be performed with a single button press. And that pretty much sums up remote control commandments 1 through 5. This means the buttons can't be tiny and packed too closely together. This seems to be a big problem with the up/down/left/right keys that are often squished into an awkward disc requiring lady fingers to operate.
Next we have the ultimate sin: poor back- lighting. I don't know about you, but when we watch a movie in my house, we do it with the lights down on the low-low. And if I can't see which button to press or, even worse, if I instead press a wrong button, I'm not happy.
I recently played with a remote that hit on all the wrong cylinders: the remote included with the Sony NSZ-GT1 Blu-ray player for use with Google TV. At first blush, the remote looks kind of cool - busy, but cool. And I can definitely see the value of having a QWERTY keyboard for entering things like Napster, Pandora, or Netflix information. It has a lot of buttons, but they're decently spaced. Where it gets strikes 1, 2, and 3 are its thumb pad, its com- plete absence of backlighting, and its being RF only. The thumb pad - a.k.a. the Optical Finger Sensor - worked so sporadically that I kept wondering, "Is my thumb too oily? Too dry? Too cold? Too hot? Too full of vodka? Why won't you work, damn you?!!" So I was constantly jerking my thumb around the pad like it was having a mini-seizure. Without a backlight, the remote was unusable even in dim lighting. I can't imagine why backlighting wasn't included. Maybe lighting up that many buttons would've required the user to wear a backpack filled with D-cells. But when you find yourself grabbing another remote (or a cellphone!) to provide the lighting to a re- mote, that's a red flag. Not good.
Finally, this system responds to RF only, which is usually a great thing because it means no pointing. But because this remote is RF only, you can't replace it with another remote to improve the experience. Sigh.
The remote control is the gateway to us- ing and actually enjoying your system. In fact, I might go so far as to say that you shouldn?t buy an A/V system if you aren't willing to make the investment in a good controller to go with it. If you're fumbling with "Is it on the right input?" or "Why can I see it but not hear it?" or "Damn! I hate this thing!," then your system has control issues. Fortunately, there is a solution.


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"We've got to get the Rockefeller Republicans out of the party," a fellow told me in Minnesota recently. Or was it Arizona? Or Wilkes-Barre, Pa.? Actually, I think it was all three. I hear it all the time as I travel around the country speaking to conservative groups.
For those who don't know, the Rockefeller Republicans — named after the former New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller — were the liberal, mostly Northeastern wing of the Republican Party.
Liberal Republican sounds like a contradiction in terms today, particularly for young people who grew up in the age of strictly ideological parties. But for most of US history, the parties weren't strongly ideological institutions so much as coalitions of interests. There were very liberal Republicans and very conservative Democrats.
Occasionally parties were defined — or indeed created — over single issues (the GOP was created to fight slavery, for instance), but the idea that you can guess someone is a conservative or liberal just by their party ID is a fairly recently development.
The Rockefeller Republicans were authentic liberals well to the left of Richard Nixon, who would today be considered to be left of the GOP on most issues. They liked the New Deal, or at least grew to like it. Rockefeller Republicans believed in fiscal rectitude, but only to the point where they thought the party should be, in Newt Gingrich's cutting description, "tax collectors for the welfare state."
Abortion didn't become a big issue until after they were already in decline, but they were unabashedly pro-choice. In fact, the Rockefellers were among the earliest and most ardent supporters of population control and eugenics.
And guess what? The Rockefeller Republicans are basically extinct, at least among GOP officeholders. Sure, there are a handful of descendants with some Rockefellerian DNA hiding in the woods of New York, Maine and Pennsylvania. But even they are on the endangered-species list.
Yet there's this idea that they control the party. Even Pat Buchanan, who knows this history better than most, recently wrote that the current battle between the GOP establishment and the forces allied with Ted Cruz is essentially a replay of the old fight between Barry Goldwater and Nelson Rockefeller.
There are certainly some similarities — there are familiar contours to every battle for control of a party. But the differences are far more relevant and profound. Pick any three defining issues of conservatism — say, smaller government, low taxes and opposition to abortion, or a strong national defense, entitlement reform and gun rights — and you'll be hard-pressed to find the supposedly liberal Republican "establishment" on one side and the Tea Party faithful on the other.
Even on the policies that are splitting Republicans these days — say, foreign policy or immigration — the rift doesn't neatly divide the establishment and the "real conservatives."
Such a statement will no doubt infuriate many conservatives who believe that the establishment is insufficiently committed to conservative principles. And that is an entirely fair complaint. But that criticism is about efficacy and passion, not policy or philosophy.
And this is a hugely important distinction that has been deliberately airbrushed out of the picture painted by groups like Heritage Action and FreedomWorks. The inconvenient truth for these groups is that the current GOP establishment is more conservative than it has ever been.
In the recent internecine conservative donnybrook over the government shutdown, the insurgents insisted they were in an ideological struggle with the establishment. But there was precious little ideology involved. Instead, it was a fight over tactics and power.
The Republican Party almost unanimously opposed ObamaCare, and the Republicans who've been in office far longer than Cruz & Co. have voted more than three dozen times to get rid of the disastrous program. And yet, the latecomers to the battle talk as if the veterans in the trenches were collaborators the whole time.
I have enormous sympathy for their frustration, because I share it.
But the real source of that frustration isn't the insufficient conservatism of the establishment; it's the insufficient power and popularity of conservatism coupled with the very real failures of the GOP to reverse conservatism's fortunes over the last two decades.
That's certainly reason enough to be mad at the establishment. But replacing the current leadership with even more ardent, passionate and uncompromising conservatives is far from a guaranteed formula for making the Republican Party more popular or powerful. To do that, the GOP needs to persuade voters to become a little more conservative, not to hector already-conservative politicians to become even more pure as they go snipe-hunting for the Rockefeller Republicans.


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10 Country Kitchen Decorating Ideas
Paneling and flooring
Nothing says country like the barn look of flat-board paneling. Vary board width, placement (vertical or horizontal) and finish (stain or paint) to give a kitchen an assembled-over-time look. Here, paneling adds texture to the island base and cabinet fronts and backs. Stained paneling puts subtle color on the walls.Another hallmark of farmhouse style? Wood and linoleum floors. Refinish or paint old wood floors. For a new floor, try distressed wood-look laminate or linoleum tiles in a checkerboard pattern.
Add dashes of color
White kitchens usually need some spicing up. Dashes of barn red in island stools, dishware and vintage game boards, along with a country-blue painted built-in sideboard, enliven this space with their Americana colors.
Create plenty of display
No country kitchen is complete without plenty of display space to show off collections of canning jars, ironstone, cake plates and other humble farmhouse antiques. Replace solid wood upper cabinet doors with glass-front versions. Install shelving between two cabinets, or simply remove doors on an existing wall cabinet and paint the interior.
Select vintage styles
Choose faucet and sink styles that replicate vintage looks. Here, a modernized bridge-style polished-chrome faucet and apron-front sink add to the new country feel.
Update with a splurge
Carrara marble countertops are a splurge, but they instantly update the bygone elements of the room with clean-lined beauty.
Create easy storage
Doorless box units constructed above the refrigerator and/or under cabinets are easy, integrated solutions for storage baskets and a microwave.
A desk with a view
The owners created a desk by suspending a ledge (a cabinet drawer unit works, too) under a window between cabinets. A farm-style chair fits perfectly.
Add country details
Under-cabinet brackets (left) are a pretty country detail.
Keep it simple
Pastoral simplicity is key. A backsplash of white subway tile adds pretty gloss without undue distraction. Inexpensive white tiles, available at home centers, make this an achievable treatment.


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Today and tomorrow, we're trading our IRC chatroom for a Condé Nast conference room in Chicago. There, we'll get to spend some quality time with one another as we further our plans for world domination in 2013 and beyond.
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text: Based on an understanding of architectural styles, you will review architectures for web applications, then explore the basics of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) in two approaches: Web Services (WS*) and Representational State Transfer (REST) architecture. In the Capstone Project you will connect a Java-based Android application with Elasticsearch, a web service with a REST application programmer interface (API). After completing this course, you will be able to: • Describe SOA (Service-Oriented Architecture) to structure web-based systems. • Explain WS* services (i.e., SOAP over HTTP, WSDL, UDDI, BPEL). • Apply REST architecture (i.e., JSON over HTTP, URI). • Identify REST design principles. • Create a system using REST interfaces. • Apply microservice architecture.